RIP/Biker Killed threads.

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Personally I dont read them, I find it hard to relate to situations where something bad happens to somebody I dont know, who I've never met or conversed with who isnt a friend or somebody I wasnt close to.

I usually read them cos you never know where a thread is going to end up, but usually don't post, I do get the feeling that it's something you're expected to do, post that is. BTW RIP biker person, see what I mean

So does this include professional racers then? Random Joe Bloggs on the street, no, not particularly concerned with, but someone who you watch on TV and/or at a circuit countless times a season, year in year out, then I certainly feel some sort of connection to.

Originally Posted by bluefishman

I do get the feeling that it's something you're expected to do, post that is.

It's something in the media too, people desperately trying show they're more upset by something than anyone else. Princess Diana was the genesis of this.

(or, How I learned to stop hand wringing and love the Monkeysphere)

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Originally Posted by MR UKI (1)

So does this include professional racers then?

For me yes. I was the same when Super Sic passed away, Its not that I didnt care, its just that it didnt effect me in the way it seemed to effect other people. Same with Tomizowa and Kato and Senna.

I was the same with Princess Diana passed away and when I heard about the people in the M5 accident last week.

I just find it hard to relate to somebody I've never met passing away, be they an annoymous biker or a celebrity. Makes no difference.

I dont know whether its that I have got tougher over the years or not, loosing some of my close friends and my neice passing away just made me re focus on what was important to me.

With you all the way on this Fizz, Dizzy and those who really DGAF if they've no connection to the person who's died. I'm not cold-hearted, I just can't find emotion for someone I never knew.

Also, there's all this RIP bollox for a bloke or woman we know nothing about. They could have been a complete and utter b4stard to their wife/husband, a child molester, a burglar, politician, thief or worst still, a labour supporter. I want these people to have an afterlife that's as much of a hell for them as possible, I certainly don't want them to RIP.

I think Lozzo is spot on on this.

And if I die in a bike accident, well any accident, I don't want no maudlin gnashing of teeth and above all, NO BLOODY FLOWERS BY THE ROAD.

I'm going to move the convo on a bit. On Lozzo's theme... have you noticed that when someone dies, people always forget the bad bits about the person, and only remember the good bits.

Originally Posted by Ed

I think Lozzo is spot on on this.

And if I die in a bike accident, well any accident, I don't want no maudlin gnashing of teeth and above all, NO BLOODY FLOWERS BY THE ROAD.

I'm going to move the convo on a bit. On Lozzo's theme... have you noticed that when someone dies, people always forget the bad bits about the person, and only remember the good bits.

I'm fairly neutral on the RIP threads. If I don't know who they are, I don't find it as offensive as some of you and if I do know them, it's nice (not the right word really) to see it.

Flowers by the road though? Oh now there you have a good one, Ed. That's a whole other thread's worth. It drives me nutty, all those bl00dy roadside memorials. And I know they were around in small numbers before Di died, but I blame the total over-reaction and outpouring of faux-grief for the huge number that appear now. We seem to have lost the ability to grieve with dignity (as a nation that is, I'm sure there are plenty of normal people out there really, they just keep off the radar and get on with it). Grrrr! Here endeth the rant.

Originally Posted by Ed

And if I die in a bike accident, well any accident, I don't want no maudlin gnashing of teeth and above all, NO BLOODY FLOWERS BY THE ROAD.

Oh god yes, I hate flowers by the roadside. My three younger kids' real dad died in a car crash at a spot close to where we lived - every now and then we'd see flowers by the roadside and they asked why they were there, me and their mum told them the tree close by was having it's birthday.

I agree with fiz & loz.But in al honestly does it really matter? IB is just that, its a places for us to chat or mainly moan about things in our lives what we are doing or ask for advice etc.
why should we start requesting or limiting what can or cant be posted (providing its within the rules) in there, because someone doesnt like to read it?
I dont read 99% of them i have no interest in other people problems. Have someself control and dont read them either simples